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John Quincy Adams was inaugurated as the sixth president. Erie Canal, linking the Hudson River to Lake Erie, was opened to traffic.


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Andrew Jackson was the seventh president and he signed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized the forced removal of Native Americans living in the eastern part of the country to lands west of the Mississippi River. By the late 1830s the Jackson administration had relocated nearly 50,000 Native Americans.


American history